As with all devices meant for a very small percentage of the population, computing equipment for the blind is very, very expensive. A Braille typewriter – a relatively simple machine that puts dots on ...

At $4,000 each, Braille displays are much too expensive to be of any use to the nearly 8 million visually impaired people living in India. But thanks to a group of clever computer science students ...

Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer who has experience working at publications like Wired. He loves testing out new gadgets and complaining about them. He is the ghost of all failed Kickstarters. Apple, ...

"A refreshable brailledisplay is an electro-mechanical device that creates braille patterns by raising rounded pins through holes in a flat surface. Braille-literate computer users use the braille ...

Our recent coverage of a Raspberry Pi Zero inside the official Pi keyboard prompted a reader to point us to another far more unusual keyboard with a Pi Zero inside it. It may be a couple of years old, ...

Three Ohio State alums are developing technology that could make Braille more accessible than ever. Through their assistive technology company A Cubed Design, the trio is designing the Enigma Reader, ...

Non-sighted computer users, on the whole, have not had access to the tremendous gains in computer interfacing that many of us have taken for granted. Largely restricted to braille innovations ...

Victor Tsaran, a musician and Computer Science graduate, shot a video showing an iPhone 4 controlled with a Braillant-32 bluetooth Braille Display. Braille is the alphabet used by blind people to read ...

The 65 students from around the country who came here this summer to show off their Braille prowess represent an elite group of an already-small number. Only about 26,000 of the 6.7 million students ...

Charles R. Cook, a National Federation of the Blind computer programmer who designed technological solutions for Braille translation, died of cancer July 2 at Stella Maris Hospice. The South Baltimore ...